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BALPA will only fight your corner (legally) if they decide you have a chance of winning, you have no control over that . If they think you have a less than a fifty percent chance of winning they will not spend any money on legal action .
Note; its what they think , your own opinion is irrelevant .
Plenty of people have been abandoned by BALPA in their hour of need . ( i am a BALPA member incidentally , a realistic one !).
Slight thread creep , a mate of mine damaged an aircraft in landing incident a few years back . He called the 24 hour accident line for advice . Way he tells it , around 48 hours elapsed before he got to talk to anyone .
The big problem with BALPA is it promises a lot , people believe the hype and are then pissed off when nothing happens .
The guys at the top in BALPA need to wake up and realise that the industry is changing rapidly , the days of the legacy carriers being the only show in town is over .
In EZY , very few of the F/O's are in the union because they have been royally shafted over the last few years . EZY / BALPA have a long way to go to bring these guys back in to the fold ........ and we need them ,without more members we will achieve nothing .
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